Hangover Square

[chatterbox]

I got a Google alert for this one.

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

Patrick Hamilton's unsettling story of a battered boozer adrift in the seedy bedsits of Earls Court and Brighton on the eve of the Second World War has been in and out of print since 1941.

It is resurrected here in a bleak but beautiful reading by Julian Rhind-Tutt, whose edgy voice locks the listener into the mind of the methodical but crazed George Harvey Bone.

Bone's fatal obsession with the harsh and condescending Netta arouses our anxiety and pity. The slurry alcoholics are never funny and bespeak, with painful clarity, the novelist's own addiction.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/17/boab117.xml


I was going to suggest it for Christmas stockings, but it doesn't sound very cheerful!

[ch1ch1]

Thanks Kim! I've put it on the "save for later" pile in my shopping basket on Amazon. Truth be told, that pile is beginning to lean quite severely!

*sigh* So much to covet, so little cash.

[chatterbox]

This new audiobook, read by Julian was reviewed in the Sunday Times, and was their pick of the week.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 017125.ece

Thanks Rita - I moved this to put with the existing thread

[maisie]

Another positive review! This time from the Observer - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/s ... 41,00.html

[Baggiebird]

Have to say it's very good. I really enjoyed it, although I do maintain that Jules would make the phone book a worthwhile listen! Anyway it is a very dark story, but it's very well told and very well narrated. It's well worth a listen.

[faeriequeen]

Ooh nice find! Thanks.

[smcassey]

Thank you for the link up. gosh, his voice, it really is....... !s